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MECHANIGAL MOVEMENT.

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A. E. RHUADBS.

MECHANICAL MOVEMENT.

No. 470,599. PatentedMar, 8, 1892..

y UNITED y VSTATES ALONZO E. RHOADES, OF HOPEDALE,

PATENT rrrcn.

MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR To THE'r "I'IOPEDALE MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

Ml-:ol-IANIOAIT MOVEMENT.

SPECTFICATION forming part ofLetters Paf-.entl No. 470,599, dated Maren 8,1892.

l Application filed November 27,y 1891. Serial No.413,203. (No model.) I

To a/ZZ whom it may concert/t: Y i

sachusetts, have invented an Improvementin Mechanical Movements,of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specilication, like letters on the drawings representing like parts. y

In many classes ofmachines itis desired fre` quently to rotate a shaft at different speeds;` as, for instance, to start up the machine at slow speed and then to increase the speed. This plan reduces the strains'on the machine and insures its better action With lessstrain on the parts. y 1

My machine is useful in warping or spooling machines and in many other machines.

Figure I is a longitudinal section taken through a mechanical movement embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a section in the line andv Fig. 3 a section in the lineas.

Referring to the drawings, A may be considered as a casting adaptedto be secured in some suitable manner to the frame of the machine having the shaft `to be driven.` This castin r has asuitable hub A invvhicb is a `,set-screw to `attach tothe casting a short stationary stud A3. This stud has loose on it a fast-speed pulley or wheel B, made shell-like and provided internally With a Series of pawls or dogs B', and a toothed driving-gear B2 to engage and rotate .a gear on the shaftto be t a pinion D on a short Shaft D,'having its bearing. in an arm D2, fast on the stud A3 `by a set-screw D3, the; opposite end of the said shaft `D havinga gear D4. The gear Dit-n gages a' pinion D5, fast on the hub of the slow- 'speed pulley D, alsoyloose on the stud A3 Loose on the stud A3, at one side of the slowspeed pulley, is aloose pulley E, kept on the stud, as shown, by a setscrew E2-in a collar E.

In operation When the belt (not shown) is "on, vthc pulley Bthe gear B2 is driven at its fastest speed. Vhenthe beltis put on the slow-speed pulley, the latter -is rotated and by its pinion D5, gear D4, shaft D, and pinionD engages and rotates the gear C, and its ratchetwheel, engaging the pawls B', rotates the fastspeed pulley. When the driving-belt is on the loose pulley E, both the pulleys D(i and B remain at rest.

p' Having described my invention, what I claim as novel, and desire 'to secure. by LettersPatent, isp The h erein-described mechanical movement for varying speed,it consisting of a stud, a loose pulley E, a slow-speed pulley DIG, having a pinion D5,a gear D4, shaft D', pinion D, gear C, ratchet C and fast-speed pulley having aigear and parvis, all thesaid pulleys being looselymounted to rotate about a center common to all, substantially as described.

v, two subscribing Witnesses. Y.

ALONZO E. RHOADES. W'itnesses:

. E. T. ROSS,

S. FRED SMITH. 

